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Solid and rigorous practice material in reading and comprehension for children to work on throughout the year, and in preparation for KS2 SATS English tests, pre-tests and 11+ Common Entrance 11+ exams.

Table of Contents

• 1: Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
• 2: The Lesson (Edward Lucie-Smith)
• 3: The Hunchback in the Park (Dylan Thomas)
• 4: The Way through the Woods (Rudyard Kipling)
• 5: Afternoon in the School, The Last Lesson (D.H. Lawrence)
• 6: Captain Cook (Susan Elkin)
• 7: The human ear (susan Elkin)
• 8: Nurse Edith Cavell (Susan Elkin)
• 9: A Street Cat Named Bob (James Bowen)
• 10: Ghandi (Amy Pastan)
• 11: Tinder (Sally Gardner)
• 12: Oliver! (Nicola Klein)
• 13: Wind and rain (Sara Smyth)
• 14: Please Miss We're Boys (Susan Elkin)
• 15: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea (Michael Morpurgo)
• 16: Hamlet (Leon Garfield)
• 17: The good wife and the bad husband (Susan Elkin)
• 18: Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
• 19: Watching the Tree (Adeline Yen Mah)
• 20: Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
• 21: The Cataract of Lodore (Robert Southey)
• 22: Adders (Susan Elkin)
• 23: The Voices at the Window
• 24: The Child's Elephant (Rachel Campbell-Johnston)
• 25: The Morning Gift (Eva Ibbotson)

About the Author

Susan Elkin M.A. B.A. (Hons.) Cert. Ed. taught English for 36 years and was a member of the English department at Benenden School from 1993 to 2004. She is now a full-time freelance writer, journalist and author of over 30 books including So You Really Want To Learn English books 1, 2 and 3 and English Year 9 published by Galore Park. Her e-book (Kindle 2103) Please Miss We're Boys describes - with humour - her first teaching job as a naïve young woman in an all boys' school in 1960s Deptford.